I've decided to post more vintage crime stuff from my magazine collection. So here's the cover of the March 1938 edition of The Strand Magazine featuring Dorothy L Sayers' immortal detective Lord Peter Wimsy. The story inside is the classic The Haunted Policeman #DorothLSayers #detectives #detection

Watching, as many might be tonight, An Audience with Kenneth Williams. He talks about losing his favourite record, and how Hattie Jacques found him a replacement. Noel Coward reading Clemence Dane's The Welcoming Land. It's here. Gorgeously patriotic. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

This one is just for @hughwalpolesociety.bsky.social: a spread from the February 1936 edition of The Strand Magazine. #HughWalpole #Walpole #BookChatWeekly #booksy #1930s

Rodney Ackland’s adaptation of Hugh Walpole’s novel 'The Old Ladies' returns to the London stage for the first time in over 30 years. Opening at the Finborough Theatre in West London, on Tuesday 24 March 2026, for a limited four-week run. www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/...

I haven't seen these. I adore Rex's work. He would always ride the line of cartoonish-realism. It's whimsical most times, so whenever I see him draw something serious like the skeleton, it seems even creepier, yet it's still posed in a lovely way. He liked grotesque things.

SUPERB dust jacket, including the spine. 'The Man With Red Hair' is a masterpiece. Unfamiliar with the others though.

Somewhere in the vicinity of #PhantomsFriday Rex Whistler's illustrations for Hugh Walpole's 'Four Fantastic Tales' (1932)

I would say this phrase is safely archaic now, it belongs in the short stories of Saki and the novels of Hugh Walpole. I cannot be SURE that #Wodehouse did not make one of his characters say: "I am in positively the rudest of rude health old top."

'moving' 'fascinating' 'engaging' Just some of the nice things said about Recommended! by Nicola Wilson - the story of the Book Society, and the people that made it happen - available from all good bookshops! Link below or search Nicola Wilson Recommended! www.hhousebooks.com/books/recomm...

Nicola Wilson's new book #Recommended ! published by @hollandhouse3525, is available now. Link below or search Nicola Wilson Recommended! www.hhousebooks.com/books/recomm... Nicola Wilson talks about Recommended, the Book Society and more on our podcast #historical #booksaboutbooks #amreading

365: The Secret City - Sir Hugh Walpole (1919) - 3.7 ⭐️ Read The Secret City - Sir Hugh Walpole (1919) and 1000+ book summaries at Celsius 233 website: celsius233.com/onlysummary/...

365: The Secret City - Sir Hugh Walpole (1919) Summary (7 min) Rating: 3.7 ⭐️ Book at a glance: It is set in Petrograd during World War I and the Russian Revolution, capturing love, betrayal, and political upheaval. 📚 Love books? ❤️ Like, ➕ Follow, ✈️ Share YT: youtu.be/zUZfdtu5Dsk

365: The Secret City - Sir Hugh Walpole (1919) Intro Rating: 3.7 ⭐️ Watch Summary (7 min) in the profile Genre: British Literature, Classics, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Russia 📚 Love books? ❤️ Like, ➕ Follow, ✈️ Share

"Her face was one of the wickedest, most malignant and furtive I have ever seen..." - Hugh Walpole, 'Mrs Lunt' #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #ghost #horror #HughWalpole #booksky

Delighted to receive the hard copy of Jimmy Packham’s fabulous Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 from our Cambridge Elements in the Gothic @dalegothic96.bsky.social @jfpackham.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Nicola Wilson's new book #Recommended ! published by @hollandhouse3525, is available now. Link below or search Nicola Wilson Recommended! www.hhousebooks.com/books/recomm... #historical #booksaboutbooks #amreading #newbook #booksociety #booksky #books

Not quite #PhantomsFriday but haunting nontheless. Hugh Walpole’s ‘Red Amber’ in which Mrs Hanney craves Mrs Buck’s piece of red amber. Mrs Buck gifts it to her when she is very ill, but recovers & asks for it back. Mrs Hanney ends up scaring her to death to get it.

Nicola Wilson's new book #Recommended ! published by @hollandhouse3525, is available now. Link below or search Nicola Wilson Recommended! www.hhousebooks.com/books/recomm... #historical #booksaboutbooks #amreading #newbook #booksociety #booksky#books

One sheet for the 1951 film ‘Kind Lady’ based upon Hugh Walpole’s short story ‘The Silver Mask’ from his collection ‘All Souls’ Night (1933). The short story was filmed twice, in 1935 with Aline MacMahon and Basil Rathbone, and in 1951 with Ethel Barrymore and Maurice Evans.

Quad movie poster for the film version of Hugh Walpole’s novel ‘Mr Perrin & Mr Traill’ (1911), ‘Acclaimed by Millions’! The film appeared in 1948, seven years after the author’s death.

Spooky Advent no 22: The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole. As much a study of grief as a ghost story, and a reminder that haunted 18th century dolls can be kind and comforting as well as super creepy.

Any other fans of THE OLD LADIES out there?

Authors I discuss include: Daniel Defoe (whose Robinson Crusoe is, I suggest, foundational to this mode of writing/thinking), Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, Susan Hill, Hugh Walpole, Gaskell, Riddell, Stoker, Aickman, MR James, Adrian Ross, Frances Burney, Conrad, Oyeyemi, Alice Thompson – & others!

On British lit 1890-1945 beyond the canon: "politics, nation & identity…art & literature…relationships between conservatism & progressive movements…suffragists…popular science…Stella Benson, Dorothy Edwards, Violet Hunt & Hugh Walpole… brings to bear…valuable new perspectives on cultural history…."

Dusting off my old “#Christmas #ghoststory anthology” project. Here’s the first instalment: The Snow by Hugh Walpole. Bonus, the extremely creepy Tarnhelm. peckerwoodmanor.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Out now: 'Gifts for My Friends and Other Stories' by Hugh Walpole. (Hugh Walpole Society & Grayswood Press). A second collection of previously uncollected stories. Edited by Rod Boroughs, Foreword & Notes by Society Chairman Nicholas Redman, Introduction by Dr John Cameron Hartley hughwalpole.org

Oooo gonna spend some time here. I’ve read Mysteries of Udolpho and Rookwood, I’m aware Hugh Walpole exists…aaaand that’s about it

Nicola Wilson on Hugh Walpole, chairman of the Book Society - listen to the full podcast on our Spotify & Youtube channels : open.spotify.com/episode/51gH... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOPK...) #spotify #youtubechannels #booksky #books #bookchat #podcastshow 23 h

"She fell forward, and even as she fell a hand, far colder than the snow, caught her neck. She lay struggling in the snow and as she struggled there two hands of an icy fleshless chill closed about her throat. Then she lay still." - Hugh Walpole, 'The Snow' #BookologyThursday #booksky #ghoststory

The Woolfs, the Hogarth Press and the Book Society - Nicola Wilson guides us around crucial landmarks, personalities and influencers in book reading culture in the Holland House Podchat - now on Spotify & Youtube : youtu.be/OOPKQKMFsZQ open.spotify.com/episode/51gH... #newtitles #booksky #outnow

Rev Hugh Walpole  born 1884 was an English novelist. In his The Apple Trees: Four Reminiscences, the apple trees are real and significant symbolic touchstones for memory, nostalgia, and the passage of time, representing the enduring connection between characters and their past. #books #apples

If you missed last week's absolutely fantastic talk by John Hartley on Hugh Walpole, catch it here! youtu.be/2_elR9E53lc Early 20th century pulp Gothic!

I’ve added Christmas Cards to my shop - there are four designs inspired by short Ghost Stories set a Christmas Card with an illustration in the front and a passage of text from the story on the back - collhamilton.bigcartel.com/category/gho... #art #illustration

‘Horace Walpole planted his absurd helmet just where he pleased and you could take it or leave it.’ Hugh Walpole, ‘The Waverley Pageant’ (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), pp. xxiv-xxv.

The latest issue of 'The Hugh Walpole Review', Vol. 6, Number 2, Autumn 2025.

This talk was SO GOOD! You should absolutely come join us for the 7pm!

I don't know if you've read many but I feel like Hugh's murder-y homoerotic Gothic pulp might fall into your wheelhouse... @kjcharleswriter.com

If you like lesser known queer Gothic authors, we'll be exploring the work of Hugh Walpole tomorrow. If you haven't read any of his stuff, I'll pop a story link in the next post! Join us tomorrow (25th) 10am - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman... 7pm- www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

Hugh Walpole (1884-1941)... #Sculpture, Anatolia, 4500–3500 B.C.

Coming soon 'Gifts for My Friends and Other Stories' from those nice people at The Hugh Walpole Society & Grayswood Press.

Day 19 of #AScareADay is Hugh Walpole's 1936 short story "The Tarn." You know, I only ever come across the word "tarn" in short horror fiction. There's Poe, Blackwood, and now Walpole. Does anything good ever happen at a tarn? 1/

#AScareADay Day 19 – The Tarn by Hugh Walpole Loved this one. The way the setting is described and the build up to what seems to be an inescapable conclusion.

25) 'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole I loved this short story of murder and watery revenge. Hugh Walpole's a writer that I've really been getting into this year and I look forward to reading more!

Day 19 of #AScareADay was 'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole Loved this one! Ominous, queer, watery deaths and weird vengeance. Gotta love it!

#AScareADay#AScareADay– Day 19 – The Tarn by Hugh Walpole #AScareADay - Day 19 - I enjoyed this short story. For this one, I thought about the themes of darkness, oblivion, inevitability, and being consumed by your negative emotions, your shadow side, if you will. I thought I'd share a piece from…

This is such a good reading of the story! For those intrigued, you can find it here! gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/070...

2/2 #AScareADay Walpole "The Tarn" Rather I refer in a non-supernatural way to Fenwick's conscience holding him accountable. He does not survive the trauma of the tarn's betrayal, his only worldly friend. However, if one wishes supernatural causation, then the tarn & Foster get the drop (?!) on him.

#AScareADay Walpole "The Tarn" The story foregrounds betrayal most foul. A deep, abiding friendship is felt more keenly by one but not the other. With this imbalance, death comes unexpectedly & horrifically. I'm not referring to Fenwick's faux friendship w/ Foster. That's a different betrayal. 1/2

📚💙 Hugh Walpole is another classic ghost writer who, since his initial success in the 1920s/30s, has fallen into obscurity. If you'd like to delve into his work "Mr Huffam" is an enchanting way to begin. You can also listen to some of his stories on the "Encrypted" podcast read by Jasper L'Estrange.

Oh I like this - Reading by Hugh Walpole